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Follow the latest news from Duke Department of Medicine - Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicineen7 from Medicine receive 2018 DIHI Innovation Awardshttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/7-medicine-receive-2018-dihi-innovation-awards
<p>The <a href="https://dihi.org/">Duke Institute for Health Innovation</a> (DIHI) has announced the recipients of the 2018 Innovation Awards, which support high-potential care delivery innovation projects in the areas of population health and analytics, novel patient interactions, new and team-based models of care, and optimization of patient flow.</p>
<p>Among the 10 recipients of the 2018 DIHI Innovation Awards are seven Department of Medicine faculty, trainees and staff. This is the fifth year that the institute has funded projects through a call for innovation applications (RFA) across Duke Health.</p>
<p>DIHI received 75 high-quality applications from across the university and health system. The innovation projects that were selected this year will receive funding support from DIHI in addition to project management support, access to data, analytics and visualization, and statistical support. </p>
<p>"The DIHI RFA is a great opportunity to pilot projects that have high potential to make an impact on care delivery," said <strong>Tom Owens, MD</strong>, President of Duke University Hospital and Senior Vice President, Duke University Health System. "Investing in innovation is crucial as Duke continues to explore new frontiers of excellence in patient care." </p>
<h3>2018 DIHI Supported Innovation Projects and Principal Investigators</h3>
<p>Early identification of cardiac decompensation and cardiogenic shock<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/education-and-training/our-trainees/ajar-kochar">Ajar Kochar, MD</a>, fellow in Cardiovascular Disease</p>
<p>High value analyte ordering implementation across the Duke Health population<br /><strong>Laura Roe</strong></p>
<p>Improving primary care access for residents and fellows through electronic visits<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/kevin-pradip-shah-md">Kevin Shah, MD, MBA</a>, medical instructor (General Internal Medicine)</p>
<p>Improving racial disparities in unmet palliative care needs among intensive care unit family members with a needs-targeted app intervention<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/christopher-ethan-cox-md">Chris Cox, MD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine)</p>
<p>Innovative predictive model to anticipate steroid induced hyperglycemia and guide insulin regimens<br /><strong>Theresa Kline</strong>, PharmD candidate, <strong>Ann McGee</strong>, PharmD</p>
<p>Optimizing patient-reported outcomes data and workflows in Maestro<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/thomas-william-leblanc-md">Thomas LeBlanc, MD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy)</p>
<p>Patient-directed acoustic surveillance for LVAD complications<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/priyesh-patel-md">Priyesh Patel, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology)</p>
<p>RFID surgical instrument tracking and optimization of the Operating Room<br /><strong>Patrick Codd, MD</strong></p>
<p>Utilization of machine learning to read transthoracic echocardiograms: Project Normal Echocardiogram<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/education-and-training/our-trainees/dr-angela-lowenstern">Angela Lowenstern, MD</a>, fellow, Cardiovascular Disease</p>
<p>Voices of Duke Health listening booth<br /><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/anton-zuiker">Anton Zuiker</a>, director of Communications, Department of Medicine</p>
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:50:31 -04007 from Medicine receive 2018 DIHI Innovation AwardsWahidi and Giovacchini discuss health effects of teen vaping with WRALhttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/wahidi-and-giovacchini-discuss-health-effects-teen-vaping-wral
<p><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/momen-mohammed-wahidi-md">Momen Wahidi, MD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine), and <a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/coral-xantia-giovacchini-md">Coral Giovacchini, MD</a>, medical instructor (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine), participated in an interview and Facebook live discussion on teen vaping with WRAL news.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wral.com/teen-vaping-use-grows-along-with-parental-concern-about-the-trend/17315335/">View the interview and learn more</a>.</p>
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Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:00:30 -0500Wahidi and Giovacchini discuss health effects of teen vaping with WRALPulmonary Chief Candidate Seminarshttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/pulmonary-chief-candidate-seminars
<p>The Committee for the Search for a Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine has invited the following candidates to return to Duke for a 2-day second visit and candidate seminar. </p>
<p>All Division and Department of Medicine faculty, trainees, and staﬀ are invited to attend. </p>
<ul><li>Seminars will begin at 4:30 p.m. and end at 6 p.m.</li>
<li>Please note the location.</li>
<li>Seminars will include a 30-minute research presentation and 15-20 minutes on the candidate’s vision for the Division, with the remaining time allotted for discussion.</li>
<li>Seminars will be streamed and recorded; find links below.</li>
</ul><h3><strong>Steven Kawut, MD </strong></h3>
<p>Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology<br />
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania<br />
“Gender in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” <br />
Tues., Feb. 6, 2018 <br />
Duke University Hospital room 2001<br /><a href="https://dukemed.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/6e44b700afba4ec79c94f0a2335c196a1d?catalog=80e6c8ac-20b0-4a88-bee5-c9fec486c7c7">Watch recording</a></p>
<h3><strong>Michael Beers, MD </strong></h3>
<p>Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania<br />
Associate Director Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship (Research-Basic)<br />
Research Director PENN Interstitial Lung Disease Center<br />
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine<br />
“Lost After Translation: How A Physician-Scientist Studying Surfactant Biology Wandered Back Into The World Of Pulmonary Fibrosis”<br />
Tues., Feb. 20, 2018<br />
Duke Clinic Amphitheater<br /><a href="https://duke.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/032d40468bfe4857ba7d9d95c184a29d1d">Watch recording</a> </p>
<h3><strong>Patty Lee, MD </strong></h3>
<p>Professor of Medicine<br />
Director of Research<br />
Section of Pulmonary Critical Care &amp; Sleep Medicine<br />
Yale University School of Medicine<br />
“The Vascular Basis of Lung Injury, Repair &amp; Senescence”<br />
Tues., March 6, 2018<br />
Duke North Room 2001<br /><a href="https://dukemed.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/23b0c50923854562adbb9c1f6164e5f91d">Watch recording</a></p>
<h3><strong>Scott Palmer, MD, MHS </strong></h3>
<p>Professor of Medicine and Immunology<br />
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine<br />
Director, Respiratory Research, Duke Clinical Research Institute<br />
Duke University Medical Center<br />
“Shaping a Vision for Academic Pulmonary Medicine: Insights from a Career in Lung Transplant”<br />
Tues., March 20, 2018<br />
Duke University Hospital room 2001<br /><a href="https://dukemed.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/2a970c3cd3a74cab8a8b9a00d80f74791d">Watch recording</a></p>
<h3><strong>Enid Neptune, MD </strong></h3>
<p>Associate Professor of Medicine<br />
Institute of Genetic Medicine<br />
Smilow Institute of Marfan Research<br />
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine<br />
Johns Hopkins University<br />
"The Marfan Reveal: Targeting Angiotensin Signaling in the Lung"<br />
Tues., March 27, 2018<br />
Duke University Hospital room 2001</p>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:17:01 -0500Pulmonary Chief Candidate Seminars7 from Medicine selected for LEADER programhttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/7-medicine-selected-leader-program
<p>The School of Medicine has announced the participants for its 2018 <a href="https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/faculty-resources/faculty-development/our-programs/leadership-development-researchers">Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER) program</a>.</p>
<p>7 faculty from the Department of Medicine will attend the three-day workshop designed for junior faculty who are leading a research group and driving their own research agenda:</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/danielle-marie-brander-md">Danielle Brander, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/adam-david-devore-md">Adam DeVore, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/grace-ming-lee-md">Grace Lee, MD</a>, medical instructor (Hematology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/jennifer-joanne-st-clair-russell-phd">Jennifer St. Clair Russell, PhD</a>, medical instructor (General Internal Medicine)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/jamie-lynn-todd-md">Jamie Todd, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/christina-d-williams-phd">Christina Williams, PhD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/tian-zhang-md">Tian Zhang, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology)</li>
</ul><p>LEADER provides insight into leadership and team building as well as direction on how to develop and manage a scientific laboratory or research program, how to improve productivity, and how to harness creativity and innovation. The program was developed to bridge the gap between the scientific expertise that led individuals to a career in academic medicine, and the management skills that will be required to succeed as the leaders of small business units. LEADER will be held April 17-19, 2018.<a href="https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/faculty-resources/faculty-development/our-programs/leadership-development-researchers"> Learn more.</a></p>
<p><a href="https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/news-and-communications/med-school-blog/announcing-2018-leader-participants">Read the full list of 2018 participants</a>.</p>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:52:40 -05007 from Medicine selected for LEADER programEight from Medicine selected for Duke Clinical Leadership Programhttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/eight-medicine-selected-duke-clinical-leadership-program
<p>Duke Health has announced a new class of the <a href="https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/duke-clinical-leadership-program">Duke Clinical Leadership Program</a> (DCLP), including eight faculty from the Department of Medicine. The 26 clinicians in the 2018 class will join the ranks of the 169 fellows who completed the DCLP program during its first seven years. </p>
<p>The Duke Clinical Leadership Program is the Chancellor’s leadership program for mid-career clinical faculty who are recognized by their peers as having the potential to assume larger roles and additional responsibilities. The program provides learning opportunities for faculty to facilitate career growth. Seven classes of fellows have graduated thus far, and many fellows have gone on to assume leadership positions across Duke Health. </p>
<h3>2018 Fellows from Medicine</h3>
<ul><li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/mashael-al-hegelan-mbbs">Mashael Al-Hegelan, MD</a>, (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/blake-cameron-md">Blake Cameron, MD, MBI</a> (Nephrology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/william-schuyler-jones-md">Schuyler Jones, MD</a> (Cardiology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/robert-thomas-keenan-md">Rob Keenan, MD</a> (Rheumatology and Immunology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/nilesh-v-patel-md">Nilesh Patel, MD, MS</a> (General Internal Medicine)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/jonathan-paul-piccini-md">Jon Piccini, MD, PhD</a> (Cardiology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/poonam-sharma-md">Poonam Sharma, MD</a> (General Internal Medicine)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/matthew-sparks-md">Matthew Sparks, MD</a> (Nephrology)</li>
</ul><p><a href="https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/news-and-communications/med-school-blog/fellows-selected-2018-duke-clinical-leadership-program-dclp">View the full list of fellows</a>.</p>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:23:11 -0500Eight from Medicine selected for Duke Clinical Leadership ProgramTaking the lung apart cell by cell, to mend ithttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/taking-lung-apart-cell-cell-mend-it
<p><em>In 2016, the Duke School of Medicine selected 38 of its faculty for the new Duke Health Scholars and Duke Health Fellows Program. With funds from the Duke University Health System, the program supports the research efforts of early to mid-career clinician-scientists at Duke.</em></p>
<p><em>Among the faculty honored are 14 individuals from the Department of Medicine, including <a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/christina-eleanor-barkauskas-md">Christina Barkauskas, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine).</em></p>
<p>The photograph of blue, pink and neon-green globes that Christina Barkauskas keeps on her desk inside the Nanaline Duke Research Building looks like a string of glowing holiday lights.</p>
<p>That is, until she decodes it.</p>
<p>Produced with a confocal microscope, the image is evidence of new insight into how some lung tissue repairs itself. It captures type 2 epithelial cells within alveoli functioning like stem or progenitor cells by giving rise to type 1 epithelial cells, which contribute to tissue repair. </p>
<p>For Dr. Barkauskas, this is not knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s data needed to better serve patients with often-lethal idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She is frustrated by how little she can offer most of them today.</p>
<p>Usually she is unable to identify the precise processes causing scarring an individual patient’s lungs. Nor can she predict how well each will respond to the best drugs so far available to her.</p>
<p>“I want to be able to tell them: ‘We think your disease is driven by this process and we’re going to target that process and hopefully give you a better outcome’,” Barkauskas said.</p>
<p>Many mysteries persist regarding fundamental mechanisms affecting normal repair of alveoli, the tens of millions of tiny sacs engaged in the life-sustaining gas exchange that admits oxygen to the human bloodstream and expels carbon dioxide.</p>
<p>On her own and working with others at Duke and elsewhere, Barkauskas has revealed multiple important processes in a string of high-profile publications that have captured other scientists’ attention.</p>
<p>“I am very familiar with the phenotype of people trying to solve fundamental problems in science at the highest level of scientific rigor. Christina has that phenotype,” said <strong>Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD</strong>, former dean of the School of Medicine.</p>
<p>Barkauskas decided that she would like to be a doctor during her childhood in northern New Jersey. She was inspired by a dedicated specialist who treated her multiple allergies and asthma so well that she wasn’t once admitted to the hospital.</p>
<p>“She made a really big difference in my life. I felt she really came to know me and what made me tick,” Barkauskas said.</p>
<p>Even during high school, Barkauskas was fascinated by biological systems and interactions. While an undergraduate at Princeton University, she dug deeper, exploring developmental genetics in fruit flies while earning a degree in molecular biology.</p>
<p>Medical school and internal medicine residency followed at Duke, where Barkauskas found herself drawn eventually to patients suffering from serious lung disease.</p>
<p>“This is not a silent disease. If your lungs aren’t working properly, you feel it. It’s more concrete for me and for my patients,” Barkauskas said.</p>
<p>Barkauskas by then wanted to mix research with medicine to “try to answer big questions.” So when <strong>Paul Noble, MD</strong>, then chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Duke, asked her to consider spending two years in the lab of <strong>Brigid Hogan, PhD, FRS</strong>, Barkauskas jumped at the chance.</p>
<p>An elite developmental biologist with a long record of discovery, Dr. Hogan has long been interested in the identity and regulation of stem cells in the adult lung and their role in repair, scarring and cancer. Her laboratory was exactly the place for a young pulmonologist to learn to use sophisticated basic research tools, Barkauskas said.</p>
<p>It didn’t take that long for Barkauskas to apply those lessons.</p>
<p>“More than anyone else I have seen, Christina appears poised to identify the long-sought-after cellular interactions and signaling molecules that mediate alveolar repair,” said <strong>Michael Gunn, MD</strong>, chair of the Department of Medicine’s Research Development Council.</p>
<p>Studies Barkauskas pursued in mice revealed that one cell type assumed by many to be active in producing scar tissue in alveoli is not. She and collaborators also discovered that the mature alveolar cells in the photo are plastic enough to shift identity like stem cells might, which expands insight on their properties.</p>
<p>Barkausakas and collaborators have also uncovered that communication between different cell types — epithelial and mesenchymal — are required for alveolar repair. She invented an experimental model with three-dimensional alveolar organoids, rudimentary organs comprised of the interdependent cells, to expand laboratory studies of that relationship.</p>
<p>Her studies with genetically modified mice have shown that the presence of shortened telomeres in cells disrupts repair processes in mice alveoli, an intriguing finding because nearly 15 percent of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have telomere-related genetic mutations.</p>
<p>On her to-do list are gene-editing queries to better understand which DNA sequences promote or disrupt normal tissue repair, work that could turn up new biomarkers of disease and, possibly, new targets for better medicines for IPF.</p>
<p>That would serve her largest goal directly. “I would love to be able to find a way to personalize diagnoses and treatments,” Barkauskas said.</p>
<p><em>The series of profiles of our Duke Health Scholars were written by Catherine Clabby, freelance science journalist. Photos are by Ted Richardson.</em></p>
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:11:57 -0400Catherine ClabbyTaking the lung apart cell by cell, to mend itNew PDC members, August 2017https://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/new-pdc-members-august-2017
<p>The following providers in the Department of Medicine joined the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) in July, as reported by the PDC Physician Integration Office.</p>
<p>Find clinic information and appointment phone numbers for each of these PDC members on <a href="http://DukeHealth.org">DukeHealth.org</a>.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Taewoong Choi, MD</strong>, Cell Therapy and Hematologic Malignancies Specialist, Duke Adult Blood &amp; Marrow Transplant Clinic</li>
<li><strong>Zachary Hager, MD</strong>, Inpatient Pulmonologist; Duke Hospital, VA Medical Center</li>
<li><strong>Tayseer Haroun, MD</strong>, Rheumatologist, Duke Rheumatology (Clinic 1J)</li>
<li><strong>Christopher Hostler, MD, MPH</strong>, Infectious Disease Specialist, VA Medical Center</li>
<li><strong>Stuart Russell, MD</strong>, Cardiologist, Heartcare Plus Collaborative</li>
<li><strong>Rex Sagalla, DO</strong>, Pulmonologist, Duke Pulmonary of Raleigh</li>
<li><strong>Kai Sun, MD, MS</strong>, Rheumatologist, Duke Rheumatology (Clinic 1J)</li>
</ul>Sun, 03 Sep 2017 21:53:48 -0400New PDC members, August 2017Duke Lung Transplant Symposium coming in Augusthttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/duke-lung-transplant-symposium-coming-august
<p>Duke University Lung Transplant will hold its Duke Lung Transplant Symposium Aug. 25-26, 2017. </p>
<p><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/sites/medicine.duke.edu/files/field/attachments/Duke%20Lung%20Transplant%20Symposium%20Brochure%202017.pdf">Take a look at the brochure and learn more about registration</a>.</p>
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:34:18 -0400Duke Lung Transplant Symposium coming in AugustSchool selects additional Duke Health Scholars and Fellowshttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/school-selects-additional-duke-health-scholars-and-fellows
<p>The Duke School of Medicine has selected additional faculty members for the <strong>Duke Health Scholars and Duke Health Fellows Program</strong>.</p>
<p>Among the faculty honored are six individuals from the Department of Medicine.</p>
<h5>Duke Health Scholars</h5>
<ul><li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/cathleen-sellner-colon-emeric-md">Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Geriatrics)</li>
</ul><h5>Duke Health Fellows</h5>
<ul><li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/deborah-anne-fisher-md">Deborah Fisher, MD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Gastroenterology)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/timothy-joseph-mcmahon-md-phd">Timothy McMahon, MD, PhD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/susanna-naggie-md">Susanna Naggie, MD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/stefanie-sarantopoulos-md-phd">Stefanie Sarantopoulous, MD, PhD</a>, associate professor of medicine (Hematoogic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy)</li>
<li><a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/deepak-voora-md">Deepak Voora, MD</a>, assistant professor of medicine (Cardiology)</li>
</ul><p>"The Department of Medicine celebrates these faculty—their selection recognizes outstanding work in their respective fields," said <strong>Scott Palmer, MD, MH</strong>S, vice chair for research. "We look forward to their continued success in academic research and are honored to have these physician investigators as part of the Department of Medicine."</p>
<p>The Duke Health Scholars and Duke Health Fellows Program was created with a transfer of funds from the Duke University Health System, and it supports the research efforts and enhance the academic success of early to mid-career clinician-scientists in School of Medicine clinical departments. Department chairs nominate faculty, and the Dean's research leadership team selects recipients.</p>
<p>Duke Health Scholars receive substantial awards to expand their research in new directions. Duke Health Fellows will receive a smaller research discretionary fund and expert mentoring tailored to their interests and career aspirations.<br />
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Mon, 01 May 2017 09:35:05 -0400School selects additional Duke Health Scholars and FellowsGift from Pratt alumnus will support Medicine-Engineering Collaborations at Dukehttps://medicine.duke.edu/medicinenews/gift-pratt-alumnus-will-support-medicine-engineering-collaborations-duke
<p>A generous gift from Duke Engineering alumnus <strong>Alan L. Kaganov, E’60, MBA, MS, ScD</strong> and his wife, Carol, aims to advance the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of pulmonary diseases by fostering new collaborations across engineering and medicine at Duke University.</p>
<p>“Because advances in engineering are also rapidly advancing medicine, we at Duke are keen to foster more partnerships between our medical and engineering schools,” says <strong>Mary Klotman, MD</strong>, chair of the Department of Medicine. “This generous gift will help to unite two areas of great strength: our <a href="https://medicine.duke.edu/divisions/pulmonary-allergy-and-critical-care-medicine">Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine</a> and the <a href="http://bme.duke.edu/">Department of Biomedical Engineering</a>.”</p>
<p><a href="http://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/innovative-gift-supports-medicine-engineering-collaborations-duke">Read the full announcement</a> at the Pratt School of Engineering.</p>
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 12:05:31 -0400Gift from Pratt alumnus will support Medicine-Engineering Collaborations at Duke